b7d694ff7e feat(composer): choose a base ref in the New Workspace composer (#17250)
* refactor(repo): share the create-from picker outside automations

Move CreateFromPicker and its test from components/automations to
components/repo, next to the repo-scoped shared UI that already lives
there (RepoCombobox, RepoBadgeLabel, repo-icon). The New Workspace
composer will consume this picker instead of growing a second base-ref
combobox.

Pure move: no behavior change. The translate() keys are call-site
literals, so no locale catalog is affected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(composer): separate the branch that names a workspace from its base

baseBranch carried two meanings at once. It is the ref a worktree is created
from, and it is also what buildWorkspaceSourceSelection turns into the name
field's branch pill whenever no work item is linked. Any second control that
set a base therefore took the name field over: the pill replaced the text
input, hiding whatever the user had typed. The name survived in state, and
Advanced still exposed it, but the main field silently stopped showing it.

Add baseBranchNamesWorkspace, true only when a branch was picked to name the
workspace. The pill reads that flag; creation keeps reading baseBranch. Two
call sites set it, because those are the only paths that make baseBranch
defined with nothing linked — and an undefined base yields no pill anyway.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(composer): let the New Workspace composer pick its base ref

The name field's tabs pick how a workspace is named; the base ref is a
separate decision the composer never exposed. Naming a workspace from a
Jira, Linear, GitHub or GitLab issue therefore pinned the project's default
base with no way to start from a release or a long-lived feature branch.

Nothing below the UI was missing. baseBranch already crosses IPC next to
linkedWorkItem and wins over every default in main, and the composer already
computed handleBaseBranchChange and startFromResetHint — the card simply
never declared those props, so its {...props} spread dropped them. Declare
them and render the shared create-from picker under the name field.

ComposerBaseRefPicker owns its own store reads, the way the sibling
ComposerParentWorktreePicker already does, so the name section stays
presentational and nothing subscribes to the worktree list while the picker
is hidden.

The picker is offered for a plain typed name and for issue-shaped sources.
It is hidden where a base already exists: PR/MR sources pin the pull
request's own head, a branch pick IS the base — and offering one there would
silently turn a checkout of that branch into a new branch off something
else, since picking a base clears reuse — and folder workspaces have no
branches. It always opens on the project default: no sticky base.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(repo): drop a stale react-doctor suppression on the create-from picker

no-adjust-state-on-prop-change no longer fires on this file: removing the
directive and running the react-doctor pass over the directory — where the JS
plugin actually loads — reports nothing, at the new path and at the old one on
main alike. The suppression was already dead; the rename only put the file in
the changed set, where the quality gate reports unused directives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(repo): list branches as soon as the create-from picker opens

The picker only searched once two characters were typed, so opening it showed
just the project default and whatever branches already had a worktree. The
composer's Branch tab lists on an empty query through the same runtime helper;
match it, and the picker offers the repo's branches straight away.

Search stays debounced at 200ms and capped at 30 results, and it still runs on
the repo's own execution host, so a remote repo lists its own branches. The
Automations picker shares this component and gains the same listing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(composer): carry the base-ref naming intent through a saved draft

`baseBranchNamesWorkspace` lived only in component state, so restoring a
persisted draft always reset it to true. A base ref chosen in the picker
came back as a name-field source pill, hiding the name the user had typed
— the exact regression the flag exists to prevent, reappearing across a
draft round trip.

Persist it next to `baseBranch` and restore it through
`resolveDraftBaseBranchNamesWorkspace`. A draft written before the flag
existed records no intent and restores as a branch pick, which is the
behavior it had when it was saved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(composer): preserve independent base and branch name choices

* fix(composer): pass naming-intent through the create-more reset test

IssueSourceActions now requires baseBranchNamesWorkspace. The create-more reset fixture is a source-owned base, so the flag stays true and the next create still clears it.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Neil <neil@stably.ai>
2026-09-17 22:31:31 -07:00
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